China plans to build a single Eurasian infrastructure network

Almaty. September 21. Silkroadnews – Chinese authorities intend to use One Road, One Belt initiative and the related projects to build a single Eurasian infrastructure network, China’s State Council Vice Premier Wang Yang said at the opening ceremony of the Eurasian Economic Forum in Xi’an, the Kazakh Telegraph Agency (KazTAG) reported.
“We are going to create a single system of transport communications, it is necessary to act actively on the priority directions - in terms of aviation, motorway, naval, network transportation projects. We need to form integrated system of communications, which might cover the key ways of communication and objects. Thus, a regional infrastructural network will be created which will cover the whole Eurasia,” TASS news agency quoted him saying.
He reminded of a rich resource base and multilateral culture Eurasia has. According to the vice-premier, taking into account the growing principles of tolerance and openness, the countries of the region are able to promote successful economic cooperation in the long term.
Wang Yang also touched on China’s progress in building more than 40 special zones of trade and economic development jointly with the Eurasian states within the One Road, One Belt initiative, and noted that many of these projects are being successfully realized contributing to mutual prosperity of the parties involved.
China plans to purposefully develop existing trade channels, act as initiator of system projects, implement agreements reached within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the deputy head of the PRC government said.
The Eurasian Economic Forum is carried out on September 21-23 and is devoted to discuss measures to disclose the potential, active implementation of international projects within the framework of the Chinese government initiative “One Road, One Belt initiative”. It is attended by more than 3.8 thousand people from 76 countries over the world. It includes 11 thematic sessions on financial, cultural, environmental, agricultural issues, science and technology, tourism, professional training and education, geophysics and meteorology.
The forum’s agenda also provides for a special meeting to be held in the format of a round table with participation of representatives of governments of the SCO member states.